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  • Experimental taxonomy, 1930-1950 : the impact of cytology, ecology, and genetics on ideas of biological classification

    Creator:
    Hagen, Joel Bartholemew
    Abstract:
    During the years between 1930 and 1950 a number of attempts were made to introduce techniques and ideas from cytology, ecology, and genetics into the field of taxonomy. Advocates of this "experimental taxonomy" believed that cytological, ecological, and genetic techniques would provide a rigorous, objective methodology to replace the traditional...
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    Dissertation
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    Experimental Taxonomy, 1930-1950: The Impact of Cytology

  • Karl Jordan : a life in systematics

    Creator:
    Johnson, Kristin Renee
    Abstract:
    Karl Jordan (1861-1959) was an extraordinarily productive entomologist who influenced the development of systematics, entomology, and naturalists' theoretical framework as well as their practice. He has been a figure in existing accounts of the naturalist tradition between 1890 and 1940 that have defended the relative contribution of naturalists to the...
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    Dissertation
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    . A. Rupke, Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994); Susan

  • William Keith Brooks (1848-1908) : a case study in morphology and the development of American biology

    Creator:
    Benson, Keith Rodney
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    The major historical studies that have examined American biology have emphasized the development of experimental biology at the end of the nineteenth century. In this characterization, the descriptive branch of biology has often been treated as less than important and, in several cases, as a hindrance in the application of...
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    Dissertation
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    . Dall (1845-1927), Walter Faxon (1848-1920), J. Walter Fewkes (1850-1930), Samuel Garman (1843-1927

  • Bridging the gap : the problem of vertebrate ancestry, 1859-1875

    Creator:
    Beeson, Roberta Jane
    Abstract:
    Determination of the Vertebrate pedigree was a particularly enigmatic problem for evolutionary morphologists of the early post-Darwinian period. At that time, practically no characteristics were known by which the Vertebrates could be linked to any of the other animal groups. Up to the 1850's, most research in embryology and anatomy...
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    Dissertation